LIVE IN SEALY, COURTNEY GILMORE, KPRC "LOCAL 2". IT IS COLD, COURTNEY, THANK YOU. FIRE FIGHTERS ARE BLAMING THE COLD FOR AT LEAST THREE HOUSE FIRES EARLIER THIS MORNING. TWO OF THE FIRES WERE STARTED FROM SPACE HEATERS, WE KNOW THAT. THIS MORNING WE ARE HEARING FROM ONE OF THE HOMEOWNERS. "LOCAL 2'S" KHAMBREL MARSHALL IS JOINING US LIVE FROM NORTH HOUSTON WITH MORE ON THIS STORY. KHAMBREL. Reporter: MIGUEL MORENO HAS HAD A FEW HOURS TO THINK ABOUT HIS CLOSE CALL. HE REMEMBERS LAST NIGHT TRYING TO CALL 9-1-1. HE SAYS HIS FINGERS WOULDN'T WORK. HE IS GLAD THE FIRE FIGHTERS WERE ABLE TO GET HERE WHEN HE DID. THIS, HE SAYS, WAS THE CULPRIT. THE CHARRED REMAINS OF MIGUEL'S BEDROOM SIT ON HIS FRONT YARD IN FRONT OF THE REST OF HIS HOUSE THAT LUCKILY SURVIVED THE FIRE. HE SAID IT STARTED BEHIND HIS BEDROOM DRESSER, WHERE HIS HEATER HAD BEEN PLUGGED. FIRE FIGHTERS LOOK AT THE DAMAGE FOR WHAT WAS A SCARY WAKEUP CALL. I HEARD A POP. THE MORE I PUT ON THERE THE WORSE IT GOT. GOT FULL OF SMOKE INSIDE. COULDN'T EVEN SEE, BUT I'M ALL RIGHT. Reporter: HE AND HIS CAT MADE IT OUT BUT THE ONE-MONTH-OLD CHIHUAHUA COULD NOT BE FOUND. IT IS A HEATER FIRE THAT DISPLACED COUPLE IN HUMBLE WHEN THE HEATER SHORTED AND SPREAD. HUMBLE FIRE ASKED FOR HFD HELP. WHILE THE FAMILY WILL HAVE TO STAY SOMEPLACE ELSE NO ONE WAS INJURED. IN SOUTHWEST HOUSTON IT WASN'T A HEATER BUT HOT EMBERS THAT SENT THIS FAMILY INTO THE OVER NIGHT COLD. THOSE APPARENTLY FROM A FIREPLACE WERE PUT IN A BUCKET AND PLACED NEXT TO THE HOUSE. EMBERS IN THE TRASH PAN. THEY PUT IT ON THE SIDE OF THE HOUSE. IT WENT UP INTO THE ATTIC. Reporter: THE FIRE WAS LIMITED TO THE HOUSE AND THE ATTIC. IN THIS CASE THERE WERE NO INJURIES. I'M OBVIOUSLY NOT A FIRE INVESTIGATOR BUT THIS WIRE ATTACHED TO THE HEATER WHICH WAS PLUGGED INTO THE WALL SAID WAS THE PROBLEM HERE ON THIS HOME WHERE MR. MORENO LIVES. FIRE FIGHTERS TOLD ME THERE HAS BEEN A RASH OF COLD FIRES AND NOT AN UPTICK BUT

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